ok so the AA friend posst made me wonder this do you ever just not wanna be friends w. Somebody but u also dont wanna hurt their feelings what do ya do then
I typically try to be as honest as I can. The AA person I genuinely like. I mean, there will always be people close to you that peeve you, but the best way to most things is to be upfront with people. Be honest, but be respectful. Typically people understand that, and if not, then let them sit in their own negativity. Don’t make them your problem.
Sometimes people don't like to talk about the fact that there are unattainable and unrealistic portrayals of men, too. Of course, having ridiculously skinny female models is not okay, but I think people know about the ridiculous body standards for women more than they know about men's ridiculous body standards. They just loot at some beefcake and say, "oh well yeah that's just a guy, thats just a dude, he probably works out 7 days a week," but they never think that the muscle definition is a achieved by dehydration. With female models, it's more obvious that they don't eat as much as they should because they look so underweight, but it's hard to tell when someones dehydrated, especially because they're modeling... so they probably have all of these filters and good lighting and such...
Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.
i haven’t been on tumblr a long time, so i don’t know how many people will read this, but i would like some opinions. a good friend of mine smoked weed for the first time in october. she went in a spiral of occasional drinking and theft, but eventually cracked and told her parents everything as she was just trying to create this persona that wasn’t her (she admitted this to me). Unfortunately, her current boyfriend’s father is a raging alcoholic who has created many even more unfortunate complications for the boyfriend. My friend is getting help for her actions which is wonderful, and her parents signed her up to attend virtual AA (alcoholics anonymous) meetings. My friend claims to have been an alcoholic after attending these meetings. Her boyfriend has expressed to me that he feels that this is insensitive, as he lives every day with an alcoholic. My friend has never been black-out drunk, never has thrown up due to alcohol, nothing. She occasionally drank, and even expressed to me at the time that she didn’t really enjoy the act. I don’t think that she’s claiming to be an alcoholic for attention, I think that sitting in those AA Meetings listening to true alcoholics getting over their issues has influenced her, and I do believe that she is easily influenced. I think that she is just blissfully unaware of how insensitive she is sounding, and that her condition probably was not alcoholism.
So I would like an opinion...
Is it wrong or by definition false to claim her not an alcoholic? Was it a bit much for her parents to put her in AA meetings? How should I address this if at all?